In this particular case, I would assume that documentation is outdated. They've been hard at work on gopls and would not set an unstable tool as the default, as evidenced by them developing it as the not-default for some time now.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 3:15 PM 'kale...@googlemail.com' via golang-nuts < golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > This twitter announcement was made today about the Gopls language server > being enabled by default in the VSCode editor. > > https://twitter.com/golang/status/1356289079575506950 > > Is this a wise move, seeing as though the documentation for Gopls states: > > "It is currently in *alpha*, so it is *not stable*." > Source: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/gopls > > Why is a piece of software that is in alpha and not stable being enabled > by default in an editor used by a large number of Go developers. This > should be 'opt-in' until the language server is stable. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/5bd5743d-fbc5-402b-bf04-e13e6daa34f8n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/5bd5743d-fbc5-402b-bf04-e13e6daa34f8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CANGiwgY6y9Giatob5esbVBMgHizym2_1FhZj2%2B9LOCqobVu_rA%40mail.gmail.com.
